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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 18, 2019
Co-editors Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal discuss their new anthology, EMPTY THE PEWS.
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The Language of What Happened to Us

  • Eve Ettinger
  • February 18, 2019
“We knew things were wrong then,” she says, “but we didn’t know how, or why.”
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Wires Crossed

  • Roxie Pell
  • March 1, 2016
By this point, the relationship between books and television is complicated enough to merit its own Netflix series. Or its own book. Or maybe both: Like lovers who share an…
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Michel Tournier and the Novel of Ideas

  • John Yargo
  • December 28, 2015
Do novels think?
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Against Realism

  • Jessi Stevens
  • October 12, 2015
What is it Ferrante has that American fiction lacks?
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Rewrite, Reboot, Remix

  • J.M. Tyree
  • August 31, 2015
Rewriting the classics has become a stale and risk-averse strategy. But that shouldn’t spoil the fun of our larger culture of remixing.
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Liberty, Justice

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 25, 2015
From Freedom to Purity, there’s no denying the man likes his themes. Over at Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon reviews Jonathan Franzen’s forthcoming novel: Does Franzen truly believe his readers need to…
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Purity by Jonathan Franzen

  • Alden Jones
  • August 25, 2015
Alden Jones reviews Purity by Jonathan Franzen today in Rumpus Books.
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Purity Forthcoming

  • Roxie Pell
  • November 18, 2014
Jonathan Franzen will release another sweeping narrative titled Purity in September of next year, to the edification of serious intellectuals nationwide. While Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux president Jonathan Galassi promises…
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